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Clay Cross Tunnel

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Clay Cross Tunnel is a tunnel on the former North Midland Railway line near Clay Cross in Derbyshire, England, now part of the Midland Main Line. [1]

22 relations: British Rail Class 222, Charles Wheatstone, Clay Cross, Clay Cross railway station, Derbyshire, East Midlands Trains, England, Erewash Valley, George Stephenson, Listed building, Midland Main Line, Midland Railway, Network Rail, North Midland Railway, Railway signalling, River Amber, River Rother, South Yorkshire, Roman cement, Stretton railway station, Tunnel, Wheatstone bridge, William Fothergill Cooke.

British Rail Class 222

The British Rail Class 222 is a diesel multiple unit high-speed train capable of.

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Charles Wheatstone

Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS (6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique).

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Clay Cross

Clay Cross is a former industrial and mining town.

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Clay Cross railway station

Clay Cross railway station was a railway station built by the North Midland Railway in 1840.

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England.

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East Midlands Trains

East Midlands Trains (EMT) is a British train operating company owned by Stagecoach Group.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Erewash Valley

The Erewash Valley is the valley of the River Erewash (pronounced) on the border of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire as far as the River Trent.

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George Stephenson

George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Midland Main Line

The Midland Main Line is a major railway line in England from London to Sheffield in the north of England.

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Midland Railway

The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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Network Rail

Network Rail is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales.

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North Midland Railway

The North Midland Railway was a British railway company, which opened its line from Derby to Rotherham (Masbrough) and Leeds in 1840.

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Railway signalling

Railway signalling is a system used to direct railway traffic and keep trains clear of each other at all times.

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River Amber

The River Amber is a left bank tributary of the River Derwent in Derbyshire, England.

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River Rother, South Yorkshire

The River Rother, a waterway in the northern midlands of England, gives its name to the town of Rotherham and to the Rother Valley parliamentary constituency.

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Roman cement

Roman cement is a substance developed by James Parker in the 1780s, being patented in 1796.

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Stretton railway station

Stretton railway station was a railway station at Stretton, Derbyshire, England built by the North Midland Railway.

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Tunnel

A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through the surrounding soil/earth/rock and enclosed except for entrance and exit, commonly at each end.

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Wheatstone bridge

A Wheatstone bridge is an electrical circuit used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit, one leg of which includes the unknown component.

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William Fothergill Cooke

Sir William Fothergill Cooke (4 May 1806 – 25 June 1879) was an English inventor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clay_Cross_Tunnel

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